“They have no idea how such things typically go, as with 1916 in Ireland or 1920’s in Berlin.”
This nation was formed by rebellion. Seemed to work just fine then.
I'll give you points for smarmy, but not much for comparative history.
Cornwallis would've evacuated and crushed the regulars in a final smash if not for intervention by a world power bent on foiling the British.
The "good guys" didn't so much win the revolution as to retreat from defeat bitterly until the balance of world powers turned.
And there's a helluva lot of difference in demographics, ethics and education in the 18th century America vs 20th or 21st century -- anywhere.
The French revolution was what happened with trying the same thing on a different people with different history.
Let's go through dozens of examples of revolution in Central America, Cuba, South America, China, Russia, the middle east, The Confederacy....all of those have more in common with what we'd see now than what belatedly materialized by the 1790s.